Liszt and the Symphonic Poem - Couverture souple

Cormac, Joanne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1316632644 ISBN 13 : 9781316632642

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group of orchestral pieces intended to depict a variety of subjects drawn from literature, visual art and drama. Today, the symphonic poems are usually seen as alternatives to the symphony post-Beethoven. Analysts stress their symphonic logic, thereby neglecting their 'extramusical' subject matter. This book takes a different approach: it returns these influential pieces to their original performance context in the theatre, arguing that the symphonic poem is as much a dramatic as a symphonic genre. This is evidenced in new analyses of the music that examines the theatricality of these pieces and their depiction of voices, mise-en-scène, gesture and action. Simultaneously, the book repositions Liszt's legacy within theatre history, arguing that his contributions should be placed alongside those of Mendelssohn, Berlioz and Wagner.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joanne Cormac is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests include genre, reception and identity in nineteenth-century music, and she is currently working on a project on reception issues in multimedia composer biography. Her work has been published in a number of leading music journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316632644
• ISBN 13: 9781316632642
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 382
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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